Word: lymphomas
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...scary enough when a biopsy reveals cancer. Now a study concludes that up to 2% of biopsy reports are flat-out wrong. The pathologist may say there's cancer when the cells are perfectly normal. Worse, the wrong cancer may be diagnosed, leading to inappropriate care. Example: lymphoma, which is treated with chemotherapy, can be mistaken for a head and neck tumor, which requires surgery and radiation. What to do? Demand a second opinion...
Shortly before he died of lymphoma, the great writer and physician Lewis Thomas, whose books turned science into a way of appreciating the grandeur of the world, told me he thought the true measure of a life was that it be useful. He wondered in those last days if his own life had been useful, and many thousands of readers assured him that it had. Lewis died at 80, but he was fairly young when he did the bulk of his most useful work. "Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be," cried Robert Browning's Rabbi...
After a Harvard career that spanned over 40 years, Pierce Professor of Philosophy Emeritus Burton S. Dreben '49 died of lymphoma on Sunday at Massachusetts General Hospital. He was 71 years...
DIED. TIBOR KALMAN, 49, Budapest-born guru of progressive graphic design; of non-Hodgkins lymphoma; near San Juan, Puerto Rico. Through his firm M&Co. and his role as editor in chief of Benetton's socio-political house magazine Colors, Kalman promoted social activism as much as innovative, anti-Establishment design techniques. (See Eulogy...
Former students and colleagues spoke of the compassion and teaching ability of Vail. He was 55 years old when he died March 24 after an extended battle with lymphoma...